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ShAFF Goes To The Antarctic!

News of the 8th Sheffield Adventure Film Festival which kicks off today at the Showroom Cinema has reached the ends of the earth - quite literally. Scientists at Britain’s latest Antarctic Research Station - the British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Halley VI - which became fully operational this month will be screening a Best of ShAFF showing at the base later in the year.

Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Department of Business Innovation and Skills, the British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Halley VI Research Station is set to become an icon for British science, architecture and engineering. The new research station, which replaces the 20-year old Halley V facility, is the sixth to be built on the floating Brunt Ice Shelf. The first station, occupied in 1957 for a Royal Society expedition during the International Geophysical Year, established the region as an important natural laboratory for studying the Earth’s magnetic field and the near-space atmosphere. It was data from Halley that led to the 1985 BAS discovery of the ozone hole. (Read more about the launch: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=2057)

Notes to Editors:
ShAFF is on at from Friday 1st March to Sunday 3rd March at the Showroom Workstation, Sheffield www.shaff.co.uk (PR Lissa Cook 07818 411 791 lissa@heason.net)
For more on BAS visit www.antarctica.ac.uk